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J Cannabis Res
January 2025
PureVita Labs LLC, 153 James P Murphy Ind Hwy , West Warwick, 02893-2382, United States.
The purpose of laboratory testing in the cannabis industry is to ensure public safety by preventing products that exceed hazardous limits of contaminants from reaching consumers, and to provide consumers with transparent and accurate label information so that they can make informed decisions when purchasing and using products. However, cannabis testing does not exist in a vacuum of incentives-some incentives exist that are in direct conflict with what is best for consumers. For example, cultivators and distributors will prefer to use the services of laboratories that find the highest THC concentrations or lowest contaminant concentrations, regardless of the accuracy of their testing results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFValue Health
December 2024
Department of Health Systems & Insurance, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Rotterdam, South-Holland, The Netherlands; Department of Health Systems & Insurance, Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam (EsCHER), Rotterdam, South-Holland, The Netherlands.
Objectives: Bundled payments (BPs) are increasingly being adopted to enable the delivery of high-value care. For BPs to reach their goals, accounting for differences in patient risk profile (PRP) predictive of spending is crucial. However, insight is lacking into how this is done in practice.
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October 2024
Innogen Institute, University of Edinburgh, Old Surgeons Hall, High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, UK. Electronic address:
Reducing atmospheric CO is vital to combat climate change. Alongside reducing emissions, it is essential to capture atmospheric CO and either use it or store it, depending on which option yields the best outcomes. Government policies should coordinate actions in areas such as the bioeconomy and avoid creating perverse incentives.
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July 2024
Department of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Background: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a program established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce carbon emissions from forests in developing countries. REDD+ uses an incentive-based approach whereby participating countries are paid to reduce forest carbon loss and increase carbon storage. Country-level carbon accounting is challenging, and estimates of uncertainty in emission reductions are increasingly required in REDD+ reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Manag Care Spec Pharm
October 2024
CHOICE Institute, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle.
Biologic therapies play a critical role in modern medical practice but also present challenges for payers, patients, and other stakeholders because of their high cost. Biosimilars can mitigate the cost pressures of reference biologic therapy because they are typically priced at least 25% lower, providing a means to administer cutting-edge biologic therapy while also managing cost of care. In fact, the US health care system has saved an estimated $23.
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